If you’re an EFL teacher working from home in the UK, congratulations on surviving yet another manic summer of homestay teaching! Here are some tips to help you plan for and survive your next homestay course, and especially the busy summer months, which will soon be here again.

Ramon is from Switzerland and spent over a month near Brighton on our Young Learner home tuition programme. He celebrated his 16th birthday during his stay. Read more about his time with his teacher, Pauline, and her family.

All languages have idioms, but English seems to have a particularly large number and this can be intimidating for students. Allison, one of our Brighton-based homestay teachers, has suggests some useful links to resources for Business English students trying to get to grip with commonly used idioms.